A First In The History of Marriage

Women can get emotional leaving a house of sixteen years. There we were. An hour left in the vacant house. Laurie was terse, tired of it all, wanting it all to be over. To leave the house, close the door and have the good bye done with. But I didn't think the cleaning was done, what with the urine stains and hair still on the toilet. "It's fine" she said. "No it's not" said I. "My mother already cleaned it" she said. "Well she didn't do a good job" says I. I didn't think the new buyers would be amused. Off to the neighbors I went for cleaning supplies. Back to the toilet I took them. She was exhausted, sad, terse, confused all at the same time. And then it all came out at once, aimed at me. A rage. A tirade. While I was on my hands and knees cleaning the toilet. "What are you doing! It's fine! Stop it!" Along with some choice words. She then broke down, and we both lay on the baren hardwood floor, embracing in the empty room where we'd slept for sixteen years, and sobbed. Soon it was over. But the cold hard fact remains: it just might have been the first time in the history of marraige when a wife yelled at her husband for cleaning a toilet.